...all, is its own gravediggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable— When, in the course of development, class distinctions...the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organised power of one class for oppressing another....

...economic organization to restructure the social world and bring it into accord with the individual. "In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, "they write in The CommunisfManifesfo"we shall have an association, in which the free development of...

...the course of development, [when] class distinctions have disappeared ... all production [will be] concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation . . . (Marx and Engels, 1848, p. 53) The basic principle of communist economics was the construction...

...makes itself the ruling class, and as such sweeps away by force the old conditions of production. . . . In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonism, we shall have an association, in which the free development of each is the condition for...

...Marx affirms that the outcome of the proposed transitional program would be that "all production [is] concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation" (MECW 6: 505). This is the formulation in the 1888 English edition, namely Samuel Moore's translation...